2017 in Austria

Events in the year 2017 in Austria.

Incumbents

 * President: Alexander Van der Bellen
 * Chancellor: Christian Kern (until 18 December), Sebastian Kurz (since 18 December)

Governors

 * Burgenland: Hans Niessl
 * Carinthia: Peter Kaiser
 * Lower Austria: Erwin Pröll (until 19 April); Johanna Mikl-Leitner (from 19 April)
 * Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr.
 * Styria: Hermann Schützenhöfer
 * Tyrol: Günther Platter
 * Upper Austria: Josef Pühringer (until 5 April); Thomas Stelzer (from 5 April)
 * Vienna: Michael Häupl
 * Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner

Events

 * 1 January – The Law against social and wage dumping came into effect.


 * 15 October – Austrian legislative election, 2017
 * 18 December – The First Kurz government is formed.
 * 18 March to 26 March – The 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games are held in Graz and Schladming, Austria.
 * 2 July to 6 July – The 2017 Tour of Austria is held.
 * 9 July – The 2017 Austrian Grand Prix is held.
 * October – a legal ban on face-covering Islamic clothing was adopted by the Austrian parliament.

Deaths



 * 15 January – Erwin Obermair, amateur astronomer (b. 1946).
 * 23 February - Sabine Oberhauser, politician (b. 1963).


 * 1 June – Alois Mock, politician (b. 1934)